Does your creative process sometimes feel chaotic? If you and your team are putting in too many extra hours to get a project over the line, the risk of burnout is real – and the work will inevitably suffer as a result. Fortunately, there’s plenty you can do to streamline how you work and get things back on track –...
Penguin Random House announces its 2021 Student Design Award winners
Cover by Ella Garrett Art directors from across the publishing company helped judge the award, which is now in its 15th year. They were joined by author Meera Syal – whose 1999 novel Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee was one of the covers the students worked on – alongside a jury of creative directors, illustrators and graphic designers....
New book goes behind the scenes of the creative process
Written by Steve Brouwers, a creative director at ad agency Ads&Data in Belgium, the book features an eclectic collection of 44 interviews with creatives spanning art, design, advertising, and photography. Each reveal personal insights on a selection of topics, from how their childhood has influenced their work, to where they get ideas and inspiration, to failure and fears. Included are...
Marina Willer and Stuart Watson on ‘aimless’ creativity
During lockdown, Marina Willer and Stuart Watson turned their house into a home for painting, doodling, monster-making and music. Here they talk about being creative as a family, and why making work for pure pleasure is essential The post Marina Willer and Stuart Watson on ‘aimless’ creativity appeared first on Creative Review....
Penguin gives Antonio Tabucchi a fresh look in new series
Penguin Modern Classics has published three books by the Italian novelist and translator Antonio Tabucchi, who died in 2012: Requiem: A Hallucination; Pereira Maintains: A Testimony; and Little Misunderstandings of No Importance and Other Stories. Tabucchi is best known for his 1994 novel Pereira Maintains, which Philip Pullman described as “the most impressive novel I’ve read for years … truly...
Projects Office builds new space for young mental health patients
London-based architects Projects Office has created a radical new Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) unit in Edinburgh, which challenges assumptions about “how healthcare environments should look and feel”. The new unit comprises outpatient facilities for 5-18 year olds and an in-patient unit for 12-18 year olds. The space has been purposely made colourful, light-filled, playful and practical. Projects...
The ad agencies that launched during a pandemic
As part of our series about creative businesses set up during lockdown, we speak to three newly-launched ad agencies to find out why they took the risk and how they’ll do things differently The post The ad agencies that launched during a pandemic appeared first on Creative Review....
How creativity could take us into space
Advances in science and technology mean space travel and tourism could become as normal as hopping on a flight. But what role does design and creativity play in transforming humans into a space-faring, multi-planetary civilisation? The post How creativity could take us into space appeared first on Creative Review....
Cillian Murphy stars in immersive film installation at MIF
If there’s a signature thread that ties together the eclectic works that have appeared at the Manchester International Festival over the past 14 years, it’s a desire to push at creative boundaries, with the artists, designers and musicians commissioned by the festival regularly asked to step out of their comfort zones and create new styles of work. This blurring of...
Cillian Murphy stars in immersive film installation at MIF
If there’s a signature thread that ties together the eclectic works that have appeared at the Manchester International Festival over the past 14 years, it’s a desire to push at creative boundaries, with the artists, designers and musicians commissioned by the festival regularly asked to step out of their comfort zones and create new styles of work. This blurring of...
Cillian Murphy stars in immersive film installation at MIF
If there’s a signature thread that ties together the eclectic works that have appeared at the Manchester International Festival over the past 14 years, it’s a desire to push at creative boundaries, with the artists, designers and musicians commissioned by the festival regularly asked to step out of their comfort zones and create new styles of work. This blurring of...
Cillian Murphy stars in immersive film installation at MIF
If there’s a signature thread that ties together the eclectic works that have appeared at the Manchester International Festival over the past 14 years, it’s a desire to push at creative boundaries, with the artists, designers and musicians commissioned by the festival regularly asked to step out of their comfort zones and create new styles of work. This blurring of...